Study Guide for the Progressive Era

The Progressive Era

Section 1: The Drive for Reform

• What were the causes of progressivism?
• What role did journalists play in the progressive movement?
• What types of issues did the progressives tackle?
• What did progressives achieve at the state and local level?

• Create a cause web for the progressive era. Identify the major ideas and people which contributed to this movement.

• progressivism
• trusts
• muckrakers
• Upton Sinclair and the Jungle
• Social Gospel
• Jane Addams and settlement houses (Hull House)
• Florence Kelley and child labor
• John Dewey and education
• Direct primary
• Initiative, referendum, recall
• Seventeen Amendment

Section 2: Women Make Progress

• How did changes in women’s education affect their role in society?
• What contributions did women make to the progressive era?
• What strategies did women use to win the right to vote?

• Create a graphic organizer illustrating how women achieved the right to vote.

• Florence Kelley & the National Consumers League
• Temperance Movement
• Margaret Sanger
• Carrie Chapman Catt & the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
• Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party(NWP)
• Nineteenth Amendment (most important!)

Section 3: The Struggle Against Discrimination

• How did progressives view the issue of minority rights?
• What steps did African Americans take to tackle ongoing social programs and discrimination? Were they successful?
• How did the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois compare on the issue of civil rights?

• Create a graphic organizer which illustrates how African Americans organized for greater rights.

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Niagara Movement
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Section 4: Roosevelt’s Square Deal

• What were Teddy Roosevelt’s ideas about government?
• How did Roosevelt change the role of government in the economy?
• How did Roosevelt change the role of the presidency?

• Create a graphic organizer which illustrates the major ideas included in Roosevelt’s Square Deal.

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Square Deal
• Trust Busting
• Pennsylvania Coal Strike (1902)
• Hepburn Act
• Northern Securities Railroad Company
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• National Reclamation Act

Section 5: Wilson’s New Freedom

• What were Wilson’s ideas about government?
• How did he try to regulate the economy?
• What impact did his policies have on government? on the presidency?

• Create a graphic organizer which illustrates the major ideas and policies included in Wilson’s New Freedom.

• Woodrow Wilson
• New Freedom
• “Triple Wall of Privilege”
• Sixteenth Amendment
• Underwood Tariff Act
• Federal Reserve Act
• Federal Trade Commission
• Clayton Antitrust Act